Big Plans

I’m feeling much better after my emotional breakdown slash bloggy rant.
This weekend I plan on doing nothing more than drinking, eating my favorite ice cream, and lying around in the sun reading. I might take in a movie or two. (Even though I hate animation, I hear good things, and you never know. [...]

I Don’t Know What to Say

Thank you for your words of support. It will get infinitely better once Mr. E is finished with his big work project and stops going out of town for work. I guess I was just wondering whether there is a way to change a leopards’ spots, so to speak. Is there a way to [...]

Solo

I find myself in a seriously bad mood of late, and I can’t shake it.
I’ve got a four month old WILL NOT take naps, no matter what I do.
I’ve a two and half year old dog who still acts like a eight month old puppy and who is always, endlessly, on the [...]

I Heart Elizabeth Edwards

And I hope twenty years from now I can say this same thing about my house:
“That’s why, with John and me, it was always our house that had the string cheese and the soda and the big thing of Twizzlers for our kids and their friends, and because of that, there’s a generation of 20-year-olds [...]

There Will Always Be Plenty of Chocolate Cake In This House

Enough

Before you have a baby if you read a lot of blogs as I do you read over and over that no one tells you how hard it’s going to be when you actually have a baby but that it is really really hard. And you read A LOT about how much you’re going [...]

Brown Eyes Blue

Next week I’m taking Eli on his first airplane trip. I’m traveling by myself and I’m freaking terrified slightly apprehensive but in this house we feel the fear and do it anyway so stiff upper lip and all that. I ordered a Lands End Diaper backpack and if more bags can’t make everything better then [...]

Now Remind Me Again Why I Had A Baby?

Ah yes. So I can put funny stuff on his head and then post pictures of it on the internet.

If You Knew How Many Times the Pioneers Were Referenced During this Process You’d Really Be Amazed. At my Extreme Dorkiness.